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Tag: Raccoon

  • Raccoon Skull Haiku

    Raccoon Skull Haiku

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    Geo Davis
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    Plain as cuspid skull,winter’s lumbering bandit,furred, furtive, no more. Sometime poems, even haiku, compose themselves. Or nearly so. When I reached out to ask if anyone recognized the skull that appeared mysteriously behind the carriage barn recently, I received several helpful responses. Joel (@mountain_man_fur) and Heather (@evergreen_lakeside_living) were the most prompt and the most decisive.…

  • Learning to Live: Sweet Corn and Raccoons

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    Geo Davis
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    I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ~ Henry David Thoreau I’ve never successfully grown sweet corn at…

  • The Farm

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    Geo Davis
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    We walked down the road from the tennis court and stopped off at my parents’ house, still closed up for the winter. It would be several weeks before my parents arrived in Rock Harbor for the summer, and by then the asparagus would have gone to seed, so we picked enough for dinner and enough…